Andy Murray with winners trophy after beating Croatia's Mario Ancic during their final match of the Open thirteen tennis tournament in Marseille on February the 17th 2008 in Marseille.

Andy Murray had a strong run at The US Open in September 2005 as well as being Britain’s youngest ever Davis Cup Player (17 years and 293 days) His strong progress continued when meeting Roger Federer in the Thailand Open to reach his first ATP Tour Final. While losing 6-3 7-5 Murray shows great promise as a contender to rival Federer with many more encounters likely to come in the future Therefore, Andy Murray looks a hot prospect for future Tennis glory.

Andy Murray U18's Singles Champion at the US Open in New York in December 2004.

Andy Murray (GBR) Biography

Birthdate:

15-May-87

Birthplace:

Dunblane, Scotland

Height:

6'1”

Plays:

Right-Handed

Turned Pro:

2005

Andy Murray is the dour Scot who likes to have his own way. He is also the best tennis player Britain has produced for a long time and the biggest hope they have of claiming a home-grown Wimbledon Champion since Fred Perry won the Championships in 1936. Murray won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open in 2012 against Novak Djokovic.

Murray is fiercely proud of his Scottish roots, he was born in Dunblane on May 15th 1987 to William, a retail manager and Judy a former Scottish National Coach. His brother Jaimie, born February 13th 1986, also plays on the ATP tour but is more renowned for doubles than singles. He won the 2007 Mixed Doubles Title at the Wimbledon Championships with Jelena Jankovic.

Andy started playing tennis at the age of 3 and was coached by his mother. He was also a good footballer and was once asked to play with Glasgow Rangers but he opted for tennis instead. When his parents split up it hit Murray hard and their divorce could have something to do with his defensive attitude.

He never manages to have a good relationship with his coaches for long and when the LTA paid former Champion and top American coach Brad Gilbert to groom Murray to win a Grand Slam title their relationship was fiery from the start. Murray decided to sack Gilbert half way through the deal and told him he wanted to go his own way.

Gilbert has since stated publicly their partnership and subsequent parting was acrimonious and he blames the fact he did not know Murray before he was appointed and the generation gap between them. He said if the Scot did not agree with something he would not listen and could be very argumentative. Murray's team would always give in to him but Gilbert refused to do this so they argued most of the time.

Following Gilbert's departure Murray appointed former British Davis Cup player and fellow Scot Miles MacLagan but a month before the 2010 US Open they parted company. Both players say the split was amicable.

Murray has publicly thanked MacLagan for his positive contribution to his career and said they had a lot of success and fun together. It is believed the split came after a disagreement with coaching consultant Alex Corretja from Spain who was engaged in May to advise Murray on how to improve his clay court performance. According to sources in the Murray camp the three men were finding it difficult to work together and Murray decided to keep the Spaniard on part-time to work with him whilst MacLagan had to go.

Murray's obsession with video games had a lot to do with his split from Gilbert and caused a five-month rift with his long term girlfriend Kim Sears. Both said he would spend up to seven hours a day playing the games. Murray had been with Sears for four years and she used to travel with him, doing his washing on the tour. The daughter of former player and coach Nigel Sears she knew all about the problems of being the girlfriend of an ATP Tour player. The couple are now back together and she was with him when he was best man at his brother's wedding in October 2010.

Career Highlights

At an early stage in Andy Murray's tennis career he was wining junior tournaments. In February 1999 he was the singles winner at the under twelve’s Auray Indoor, tournament followed by a win at the Aguen International both of which were held in France. He also won at the Junior Orange Bowl in Miami in the same year.

Andy Murray won both the singles and doubles title paired with Tom Rushby of GBR for the under fourteen’s Prince Cup in the USA. In 2001 he repeated a doubles winning title with Adrew Kennaugh of GBR in July 2001 at the Windmill Cup.

In the under 15’s category Murray won both singles and doubles title paired with the same tennis partner Adrew Kennaugh in August 2001 at the LTA National Bournemouth.

January 2002 saw Andy Murray a doubles title winner paired with Tom Rushby at the Bergheim in Austria. Another doubles and singles title awaited at Nottingham in August 2002. October saw a repeat singles and doubles title paired with Ara Harutyunyan at the Torneig ITF Andorra La Vella.

In 2003 Andy Murray moved in to the under eighteens division, with a single’s win at Barranquilla in January and Citta Di Prato Italy. Additional wins came at Canadian Open under eighteens in August. A junior tennis career high was achived when Murray became the men’s under-eighteens singles Champion at the US Open in New York in December 2004. After this point Andy Murray followed with single’s titles in Spain December 2004 and USA in July 2005 at the Aptos Challenger and Binghamton Challenger.

August 2008 and Andy Murray achieved his first Master Series Title at Cincinnati and climbs to a career high of sixth in the ATP tennis world rankings. Murray next heads of to the 2008 Olympics games in Beijing to represent his country in the singles and doubles tennis tournament aiming for gold.

Commenting on his resent first ATP title Murray described it as, “It was a huge relief to win the title having had those match points. I was nervous but I hung in there and played well. It was tough for both of us with the temperatures reaching one hundred and four fahrenheit and your legs burn. I just kept fighting and I am more confident about competing with the top players now. This is a huge win for me because I have played five days in a row and came through some tough matches and with Toronto, I have been competing for eight or nine days in a row and that means a lot to me.I’ve beaten Novak twice in the last couple of weeks now and he’s played great all week. It gives me a lot of confidence going into the Olympics and the US Open.”

Jan - 2009 Andy Murray is in great tennis form for the up coming Australian Tennis Open, which is the first Grand Slam of the 2009 tennis calendar. Murray’s excellent form comes after defeating both of the world's top two tennis players on consecutive days.

Murray defeated Rafael Nadal six-four, five-seven and six-three in the final of the Capitala World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament. This tennis event was played in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with Murray taking home prize money of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The semifinal saw Murray also defeat Roger Federer four-six, six-two and seven-six (8-6).

Andy Murray described; “This victory was good before I go to Australia”.

Nov - 2008 Andy Murray beats Roger Federer and Andy Roddick in his first Masters Cup. He then goes on to make it all the way to the semi-finals in an impressive debut in the end of season tennis championships.